Minnesotans in sectional qualifying

Last update: June 9, 2008 - 11:30 PM

LPGA veteran Michele Redman, from Plymouth, and former LPGA player Martha Nause, from Inver Grove Heights, have made the U.S. Women's Open field.

They nabbed two of the 83 berths for the Interlachen Country Club tournament that were available Monday at seven 36-hole qualifiers around the country.

Redman qualified at Rockville, Md. Nause was the only one of eight Minnesotans to grab one of 19 berths available at the qualifier in Glencoe, Ill. Nause, 53, shot 152 at Skokie Country Club, three strokes behind the top scores of 149, shot by Katrina Leckovic and Leah Wigger.

Nause, a Wisconsin native who went to St. Olaf, has a major championship, winning the 1994 Du Maurier Classic, the most recent of her three career victories. She retired from the tour in 1999 and is now the golf coach at Macalester.

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